Bridging the Gap between Legal and Technical Contracts

  • Authors:
  • Alvaro Arenas;Michael Wilson;Shirley Crompton;Dana Cojocarasu;Tobias Mahler;Lutz Schubert

  • Affiliations:
  • STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory;STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory;STFC Daresbury Laboratory;University of Oslo;University of Oslo;University of Stuttgart

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Two or more parties typically establish a business relationship using a contract, but a large gap still exists between the provisions of contracts produced by lawyers and the details of computer security and performance addressed by technologists. Some contractual clauses address legal issues that technology can manage as well the TrustCoM framework offers a paradigm for automating these clauses as technical operations. If a business relationship forms across a service-oriented architecture, the parties involved often manage their collaboration as a virtual organization (VO). In TrustCoM, agreements are the key means of steering VO collaborations and mitigating the risks inherent in integrating processes and resources across organizational boundaries.